How to Memorize Medical Books 10x Faster?
By Muhammad Shoaib | A Medical Student
Memorize Medical Books 10X Faster — Medical is the most difficult field in the World. But still, most of the students manage this with different techniques. The most difficult thing for medical students is to memorize the medical terms, different stuff, and more like entire books.
Before Medschool, Students use to have two reads of particular topics normally. First Student read the topic from the POV (Point of View) of the Student, where he cleared the different concepts of that topic. Then, in the second read, he studies from the point of view of a teacher, where he thinks how an examiner can ask a question from that topic. With these two steps, students clear that topic.
But, in MedSchools or Colleges, the case is different from the intermediate. Here the student has to optimize his way of study to manage time very well. In this regard, this blog is all about a method to memorize medical books 10X faster.
Method to Memorize Medical Books 10X Faster
This method consists of different steps to memorize 10X faster. These steps are given below:
1) Topic Selection
This is one of the main steps of this method because one should select a topic he is interested to do. First of all, make a mindset for study and then select a topic that you want to study. Start reading that topic thoroughly and 100% focus. Only then you will understand the content given.
2) Making Questions
This is the main step of this method, in which after thoroughly reading and understanding, start making conceptual questions out of every subtopic you studied. Next time when you read these questions, you will only look at points that are important.
Basically, this is a form of note-taking in which notes are incomplete and you have to fill those gaps. Here each subtopic is divided into a bunch of questions. How many questions should be made from each subtopic, you have to decide.
3) Categorize and Prioritize
The number of questions from a subtopic depends on the importance of that topic. You have to categorize different topics according to the importance of that topic in exams.
For example, there is a topic from pathology named Anemia, which has a number of subtopics like Iron-deficiency anemia, Vit-B12 deficiency anemia, Hereditary Spherocytosis, G6PD deficiency anemia, and so on. If we these both subtopics Iron-deficiency anemia and Hereditary spherocytosis, then definitely Iron-deficiency anemia will have a large number of questions than Hereditary Spherocytosis.
4) MCQgenic Topic
The number of questions also depends on another factor that is called MCQgenic. If there is a topic from where a lot of MCQs can be formed is the MCQgenic topic, because the probability of MCQs to be asked from that topic is very high.
For example, let’s take Hepatitis as a topic. You can make 10s of questions from that, and these questions will not only help in Medschool or college exams but also be helpful in Competitive exams like USMLE, PLAB, NLE, NEET-PG, and so on, which have only MCQs.
5) Revision Ratio
If you are only making questions on daily basis, it’s wonderful. But you also have to revise those questions on daily basis to retain that information in your long-term memory. The Ratio of Revisions to New topics should be 1:1.
These revisions will be hard on the very next day, even hard when the week passes. But if you do this practice on daily basis, you will have all the information pinpointed on your mind. With this process, the entire book will be memorized.
Resources for this Method
Google Docs is a wonderful resource for writing questions easily. And it’s a completely free resource with great features. With these features, you can highlight any question with any color if you feel that is difficult for you. Or even you can add a comment to a particular word, and when you touch that word, the comment will be visible.
MS Word can also help you with writing questions, and reading them the very next day so that you can make that information your long-term memory.
Conclusion
If a student follows these steps with a different mindset, then nothing will stop them from memorizing medical books entirely. This will not only help them in med school or college but will also in different competitive exams after or during graduation.
